Metal Singer Stabbed To Death- Nevermore Brain Surgery- Rammstein North American Tour- Vadar Lose Member- Strokes MSG- Motorhead Chart- Alexisonfire- more

Nevermore bassist Jim Sheppard is recovering from surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. more

SnagFilms.com just added the film "Dee Dee Ramone- Hey is Dee Dee Home" to their site. This is the first time the documentary has been available online and you can watch it for free here

Tomasz "Reyash" Rejek has announced: "After over two years of cooperation, I've decided to quit Vader due to personal reasons. I'd like to thank my bandmates for hundreds of gigs played together, I wish you all the best." more

Motorhead's new album The World is Yours has charted at No.94 on the US Billboard 200, selling 7000 copies on its first week of release more

Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher reports the band are gearing up to write the follow-up to Crack the Skye. He says: "We have the concept. Brann Dailor showed me some of the stuff he's working on and I was like, 'Woah, this is crazy sh*t.'" more

Smashface, the new band featuring Lorenzo Antonucci (ex-Sworn Enemy guitarist) on lead vocals and Chris Storey (ex-All Shall Perish) on guitar, will make its live debut this April on a European tour with Full Blown Chaos. more

Fake Figures, featuring current and former members of Atreyu, Hotwire, Scars Of Tomorrow and SSNOVA, will be entering the The Shop studios in Los Angeles on Feb 22nd to begin work on their debut EP. more

The Strokes will headline Madison Square Garden on April 1, to celebrate the release of their new album Angles. more

After doing a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, Rammstein have announced nine additional North American tour dates for this May. more

Samael have chosen "Lux Mundi" (which translates in English as "Light of the World") as the title for their upcoming album. more

Two new dates have been added to the 2011 Metalliance Tour featuring Helmet, Crowbar and more. Those dates are: 03/28/11 Merriam, KS @ Aftershock (No Helmet) and 04/04/11 San Diego, CA @ Brick by Brick

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Alexisonfire announced via their Twitter account, "Wrote some new songs today. This sh*t's so heavy it's going to make Dogs Blood look like a ska record!!!" more

Mountain Man has lined up a handful of March and April shows more

Prong has finished demoing 14 new songs for the band's follow-up to 2007's "Power of The Damager", tentatively due before the end of the year. more

According to a posting on her official blog, Nightwish singer Anette Olzon will be hitting the studio in March to begin work on the band's new album, Imaginarium more

RIP Rick Kulwicki. He is best remembered as a guitarist for Denver, Colorado punk band, the Fluid. Kulwicki was 49 when he passed away on February 15, 2011. Cause of death was not immediately released. more